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Vocabulary
Geography
Early Egypt
Pyramids and Mummies
Social Status
100
a writing system made up of picture and sound symbols
What is hieroglyphics
100
The major river in Egypt
What is the Nile
100
Name two uses for papyrus
What is baskets, sandals, river rafts, paper
100
Pyramids were made out of this material
What is stone
100
Part of the ruler class
What is the pharaoh and royal family
200
ruler of ancient egypt
What is pharaoh
200
Because it was surrounded by these, Egypt was isolated from outside invaders.
What is deserts
200
Two kingdoms that were united to form Egypt
What is Upper and Lower Kingdoms
200
One of the three things Pyramids protected against
What is floods, wild animals, and grave robbers.
200
part of the upper class
What is nobles, generals, priests
300
the process of preserving dead bodies
What is embalming
300
One way the Nile helped the Egyptians
What are provided water for drinking and growing crops, cataracts kept out invaders, and marshy delta kept out enemies.
300
Person who united the two kingdoms of Egypt
What is Narmer
300
Two types of objects put in the tombs with the mummy.
What is clothing, furniture, jewelry?
300
part of the middle class
What is merchants, artisans, and shopkeepers
400
a reed plant that grows along the Nile River
What is papyrus
400
The Nile flows from ____________ to _____________.
What is south to north?
400
This made the soil in Egypt fertile for growing crops every year.
What is flooding of the Nile
400
The type of salt used in embalming.
What is Natron?
400
members of the lower class
What is farmers, unskilled workers, and enslaved people
500
a government in which the same person is the political and religious leader
What is a theocracy
500
process used to water crops
What is irrigation
500
The only people who could read and write
Who were scribes?
500
One achievement of the Egyptians developed to help with the pyramids.
What is astronomy, calendr, geomery/mathematics, a system of written numbers, fractions?
500
the largest class and the smallest class
What are the lower class and the upper/ruler class